I think people who say[1] that guess culture only exists some places are meaningfully confused.
Or maybe they just don’t fall prey to the fallacy of gray and realize it sometimes might make sense to call something black even though it doesn’t literally scatter exactly no light at all (otherwise there’d be no point in having a word if it didn’t apply to anything at all).
I understand that. I wrote the post you’re replying to with that in mind. I think the thing that people call guess culture actually applies almost everywhere, and anything but high trust between very close friends will secretly be only using different words, but have the same guessing patterns. I’m not making some wordplay claim here, I actually think there is a high magnitude error in the theory and that the update is to apply guess culture almost everywhere.
Or maybe they just don’t fall prey to the fallacy of gray and realize it sometimes might make sense to call something black even though it doesn’t literally scatter exactly no light at all (otherwise there’d be no point in having a word if it didn’t apply to anything at all).
I understand that. I wrote the post you’re replying to with that in mind. I think the thing that people call guess culture actually applies almost everywhere, and anything but high trust between very close friends will secretly be only using different words, but have the same guessing patterns. I’m not making some wordplay claim here, I actually think there is a high magnitude error in the theory and that the update is to apply guess culture almost everywhere.